CHAPTER 4: THE CLOSER THINGS GET
TENNYSON'S RESIDENCE, ROW HOUSE, NEW YORK
Superman and Wonder Woman are sitting down on the couches while talking to Gwen's parents while Ben, Gwen, Rook, and Ester join Superman, Wonder Woman, and Gwen's parents for a conversation in the guest room.
"First things first, I would like to thank you guys to save us again." said Superman
"No problem, Superman." replied Gwen.
"We were wondering if you guys would like to join our team?" offered Wonder Woman an invitation to the Justice League.
"I don't see why not." replied Ben, as Gwen, Rook, and Ester replied with a smile.
Superman and Wonder Woman smiled back, knowing that Ben, Gwen, Rook, and Ester agreed to join the Justice League.
"By the way, we have a graduation we need to attend." said Superman to Ben, Rook, and Ester.
SMALLVILLE HIGH, KANSAS
The graduation was held on a football field, where Kara Kent and Connor Kent are both receiving their high school diploma. Ben Tennyson, Rook Blonko, Ester, Clark Kent, Jonathan and Martha Kent are taking an applause towards both Kara and Connor. Rook and Ester use their holographic projector to disguise themselves as humans. After the graduation ceremony, both rushed over to their family and friends.
"Thanks for coming, Ben; it means a lot that you came here." Kara rushed towards Ben and hugged him
Ben smiled at her. "Hey, today is your big day. How could I miss it?"
As Kara and Connor's classmates are planning for a party from their graduation, Kara and Connor are about to join on a bigger occasion, as Ben Tennyson, Rook Blonko, Ester, and the Kents left early after Kara and Connor received their high school diploma.
KENT'S FARM, SMALLVILLE, KANSAS
As Clark, Kara, and Connor, already donning their superhero outfits, Rook and Ester deactivated their holographic projector to revert back to their normal alien forms, and Ben is wearing black armored jumpsuit, along with a black helmet, jet boot attachments, a utility belt, and still have the Ultimatrix attached on his left wrist.
"Go look after the kids, Clark." said Jonathan
"I will." replied Superman.
"Have fun you kids." as Martha is hugging Supergirl and Superboy.
"We will." replied Superboy.
The heroes walked out through the farmhouse, then Superboy pressed his ear comm. "Superboy to Titans Tower." as Superboy spoke, a white light surrounded Superboy as he was teleported to the Titans Tower.
Next, it's Superman's turn to press his ear-comm. "Superman to Watchtower." Then a white light surrounds Superman, Ben, Supergirl, Rook, and Ester as they are teleported to the Watchtower.
WATCHTOWER, SPACE
The light from the teleporter faded as they landed on the teleporter platform. Tons of superheroes are waiting and chatting around the Watchtower. Titano, Zeno, and Gwen are already at the Watchtower. Gwen right now is Lucky Girl, dressed in a dark purple jumpsuit, purple gloves, and a strange cat-like black and dark purple mask.
Then Lucky Girl approaches Ben. "Nice suit you got there, Ben." complemented by Lucky Girl to her cousin.
"I think it's better for you to call me Omni Knight." replied Ben, now known as Omni Knight.
"Sorry, Omni Knight." as Lucky Girl giggled with Ben's new codename. But Omni Knight just groaned.
As Rook and Ester are chatting with Titano and Zeno, Omni Knight notices Supergirl is staring at the glass window, where she can see the stars in space.
"Are you feeling okay?" asked Ben to Supergirl, as he touched her shoulder.
"I'm fine. It's just I've never actually traveled to space before. Well just once, on a pod when I escaped Krypton." explained Supergirl.
"You missed them huh?" Omni Knight asks.
"Of course I always do, but my parents wanted me to be here and to protect Earth with my cousin," said Supergirl. "Besides, it's always nice to have a new family."
Ben completely understood what it's like to have a new family. He saw Tetrax, Rook, Ester, Titano, and Zeno as his new dysfunctional family, ever since he lost his parents at a very young age.
"Come on, let's go meet the others." said Supergirl as she grabs Omni Knight's arm to meet the other superheroes.
Omni Knight met Lucky, Titano, and Zeno again, even the likes of Zatanna, John Constantine, and Etrigan are already on the Watchtower too. Zatanna was feeling uncomfortable when she saw Dr. Fate, known as Giovanni "John" Zatara, where he was trapped as the host for Nabu (the helmet of Dr. Fate) for the rest of his life.
After all the recruited heroes are gathered in the Watchtower, they're watching towards Superman, who's making a speech for the "newly expanded" Justice League. "Each of you brings something different from the table. Strength, speed, stealth, whatever." said Superman, who's making the speech. "But we're all equal in the same way, each of us are willing to make the sacrifices a hero needs to make, even the ultimate one. Since there's so many of us, we can do more than put out fires, or bring down the bad guys. We can be proactive, we can do some real good. But we're gonna be more organized." Then Superman points up to the monitor deck where Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Cyborg are standing. "J'onn, Batman, or Cyborg will be up there to keep an eye on everything. They'll be the ones to decide who's going where and when. I know a lot of you prefer to make those decisions for yourselves. But we have to be more coordinated than that. We can't be cowboys anymore. Or cowgirls in this case."
Lucky Girl smiled at that, as did Vixen, Zatanna, Supergirl and Wonder Woman as they were glad to hear him say that. Then, Lucky Girl approaches Omni Knight. "I can't believe our first day as a League member."
"Neither can I." said Lucky Girl. "I wonder what my first mission is going to be."
"Me too." agreed Omni Knight. "You know, this isn't my first rodeo for saving the world. I kinda save different planets with Rook, Ester, Titano, and Zeno."
"No need to brag, Mr. Big-Hero." groaned Gwen after hearing Ben's arrogance.
After Superman finished his speech, back at the Monitor Platform, Martian Manhunter called out Wonder Woman for a mission.
"What do you have in mind for Omni Knight's first job?" asked Diana.
J'onn then turns his attention to the computers, and shows her what he found. They've located Giganta, Killer Frost, Deadshot and Copperhead.
"Giganta, Killer Frost, Deadshot and Copperhead?" Wonder Woman said, after locating their location from the computers on the Monitor Platform. "But what are they up to?"
"I'm not sure." replied Martian Manhunter. "They seem to be ransacking a warehouse in this area." he said, pointing at where the warehouse was located and Wonder Woman recognized it. "It's right there. Chicago."
"Alright, so I'm taking Ben." said Diana, "Who else do you have in mind?"
"Take Supergirl, Atom, and Terrific with you to find out."
"Okay." she agreed as she smiled, then Diana turned her attention towards Omni Knight, Supergirl, Atom, and Mr. Terrific. "Omni Knight! Atom! Terrific! Kara!" as she raised her voice from the Monitor platform to call out Omni Knight, Supergirl, Atom, and Mr. Terrific.
"Bout time." replied Supergirl, as she's excited for her first mission as a Justice League member.
Omni Knight then asks as they're walking to the Javelin hanger with Supergirl, Atom, and Mr. Terrific. "So, what's the mission?"
"A warehouse in Chicago is being robbed." Wonder Woman said to him. "The robbers are Deadshot, Killer Frost, Copperhead, and Giganta." she said, with a stare of disdain in her eyes.
Omni Knight had no clue who they were, due to him being away from Earth for 8 years. "On the way there, could you debrief me on who they are?" he asked her.
"Sure." said Wonder Woman. "We'll brief you at the Javelin."
As they all boarded the Javelin. Omni Knight sat next to Supergirl while Mr. Terrific sat next to Atom, and Wonder Woman was piloting.
The gates bagan to open and the Javelin launched, sending it out of the Watchtower and making an atmospheric re-entry to Earth.
INSIDE THE JAVELIN
"Okay, first up is Floyd Lawton, AKA Deadshot." Said Mr. Terrific while accessing the computers on the Javelin. "He's a master sniper; able to use any kind of guns and he never misses."
Ben saw what Deadshot looked like with his mask on and off, he cupped his chin and said, "So, he's a hitman?" he asked.
"Yes." replied Mr. Terrific. He then showed the next file which was a woman who literally was blue. "Crystal Frost, also known as Killer Frost. She's a Metahuman with the ability to control and manipulate ice, and a former cryogenics scientist."
"Not impressed." Omni Knight said
"This piece of work is called Sameer Park, or Copperhead." Said Atom "A master contortionist with a poisonous bite to him."
Ben was a little awkward out by what kind of villain he was, "He's… A humanoid snake? I hate those things."
"That's Dr. Doris Zeul, AKA Giganta." Said Atom "She has the power to increase her strength and size."
"Please, I've seen bigger." replied Ben.
WAREHOUSE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
As the team arrives outside of a large warehouse from far distance at the rooftops, Wonder Woman debriefs that this mission is a stealth mission.
Omni Knight uses the Ultimatrix as he changed into Chamalien, it has a slim body that resembles a large purple salamander with darker purple camo-esque spots all over his body and a short tail. He wears a black helmet with three triangular colored lenses, the left one being blue, the right red and the middle green, which hide his three eyes. The helmet also has a spike-shaped fin on the back of his head. He has four-fingered hands and three toes on his frog-like feet. He also has a wide mouth with sharp teeth.
Then Wonder Woman gave the orders. "Terrific, take the north side. Ben, the south, I'll take the east, Atom will take the west." then turns her attention to Supergirl. "Supergirl, hold position."
"What?!" Supergirl sounds disappointed when Wonder Woman told her to stay behind. "Why can't I go in?"
"Because you're Supergirl, not stealther-girl." says Mr. Terrific.
"I can do this!" Supergirl defended herself.
But Ben steps in. "No one here's meant to knock off your enthusiasm, Kara. Besides, you have super-vision, you'll always watch our back from far away, okay?" Ben, as Chamalien, responded in a calm manner and a small smile towards Supergirl.
"Anything goes wrong, we scatter and meet at the rendezvous point. Clear?" asked Wonder Woman.
"Clear." responded Chamalien, Atom, and Mr. Terrific.
But Supergirl hasn't responded yet
"Something on your mind, Kara?" said Atom. That is when everyone's looking at her.
"Clear." responded Supergirl in an unenthusiastic manner. Then Wonder Wonder, Chamalien, Atom, and Mr. Terrific scattered and disappeared.
Outside the fences of the warehouse, Atom shrunk himself through the electrical fences at the north side, Mr. Terrific levitates himself and Chamalien with his T-spheres through the fences, then splits up, and Wonder Woman jumps over the electrical fences.
Wonder Woman is up on the rooftop, and snuck onto the air vents, Chamalien on the other hand just stays invisible while climbing at the wall. Atom is hidden behind the boxes while staying small, and Mr. Terrific is cloaking himself from the T-sphere's which allows him to camouflage. Then five supervillains, Deadshot, Killer Frost, and Copperhead are in a gathering where they are discussing something.
"So what's the plan?" asked Killer Frost, who's not very good with patience.
"We take the Ion Fuel Cells from this warehouse," said Deadshot. "They are vital to the construction of the big boss's super weapon."
Copperhead used his poison on some of the night guards to render them unconscious, "Ah, yess." he said. He swiped the keys off the guard and began searching all around until he found a door, unlocked it and found something. "Hey, I think I found what we came for!" he called to the others.
Frost, Deadshot and Rampage all rushed over to the area and found the Ion Fuel Cells. "Score!" said Frost.
Far away from the warehouse, Supergirl notices something from the rooftops. New arrivals, like Giganta, had arrived late to the area. Supergirl then pressed her ear comm.
"Guys. We've got a major problem." Supergirl was trying to respond, but someone was already behind Supergirl.
"Looking for someone?" Then it appears to be Parasite, a man with purple body and white stripes, grabs Supergirl and touches her to absorb her power.
After Parasite finished absorbing Supergirl, she was unconscious and Parasite carried her, while intercepting her ear-comm. Then contacting his client with his phone. "Yeah, we've got a problem."
Meanwhile, at the warehouse, Chamalien and the other heroes were about to respond back to Supergirl, but didn't reply back. "Kara? Kara, come in." Whispered Chamalien talking to the Ultimatrix dial on his chest. Ben was able to use the Ultimatrix as a communicator to keep in touch with his teammates or his family, especially when he was in his alien forms. Growing worried, Chamalien decided to go back to the rendezvous point, back to the rooftops where Supergirl was staying. "I'm going back." replied Chamalien, talking to his Ultimatrix dial comm again.
"Ok. Be very careful." replied Wonder Woman from her ear comm too. So Chamalien immediately headed back to the rendezvous point.
Back at the warehouse, Deadshot received a call from his ear comm. "Go ahead." Then he received an alert from Parasite about the intruder. He remained silent to not alert the spies. But after looking around with his eye lenses scope that could be able to see on his heat sensors, he managed to locate Wonder Woman hiding. Deadshot quickly fires his small rocket towards the Amazons hiding location.
*KABOOM*
It knocks the Amazon away.
As the villains get their attention towards Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific decides to aid Wonder Woman by throwing the T-spheres and explodes, and knocks off the villains. But Giganta recovers and grows big.
Giganta looked at Mr. Terrific and mused how he looked in her hand "You're cute enough to become my boy-toy." grinned Giganta.
"Too bad you've always broken your toys." replied Terrific.
"We'll duh…" As Giganta is about to squash Terrific, Wonder Woman quickly zooms with her flight and punches down Giganta.
As Wonder Woman keeps attacking Giganta, Terrific is now still surrounded by villains; Deadshot, Killer Frost, and Copperhead, where they're trying to attack Terrific at the same time. But he uses the T-spheres to fire back non-lethal lasers to knock down the villains. Then he uses T-spheres again to hover above from the air. Deadshot fired his guns from his waist.
*RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT*
but Terrific blocks it with his T-sphere forming into a shield. But the shields went frozen thanks to Killer Frost. As she was about to attack Terrific, then a tiny man punches Frost with huge force as she didn't notice Atom was there. Even if Atom was shrunk he could increase his density, effort, and exertion, which is powerful enough to take down any opponent even at his small size.
CHICAGO CITY, ILLINOIS
Meanwhile, Chamalien found an ear comm lying on the ground, and knew the villain ditch Supergirl's ear comm, in order for Ben unable to track her. However, Chamalien slapped the Ultimatrix dial to transform into Steeljaw. His appearance is based on a husky or werewolf. He has dark blue-gray and cream-colored fur, with three sharp claws on each hand and foot, as well as a small tail. His eyes are green, sharp teeth, and he wears a white and black armored vest, black pants and gauntlets, and an iron shoulder pad on his right shoulder. Steeljaw is smelling Supergirl's ear comm, then runs off towards Supergirl's location based on his instinct.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the alley, Parasite decided to keep Supergirl as food in order, while she was weakened and tied up by steel chains, allowing Parasite to keep absorbing Supergirl's power. But it didn't take long for Steeljaw to find Supergirl and Parasite's location as Steeljaw leaps down from the rooftops to the alley. "Let her go." warned Steeljaw, while growling
*GRRR*
However, Parasite doesn't feel intimidated by the wolf-looking alien. "You want her doggy? All you have to do is to get by me."
As Steeljaw attacks, Parasite uppercuts Steeljaw and knocks him off but quickly recovers. But surprisingly, Parasite was able to float in the air. "Do you like it? I've just absorbed Supergirl's power."
Steeljaw winced in pain a little bit, but he got back up. After that, Parasite fired with his heat-vision, but Steeljaw deflects the heat-vision with his armor gauntlets attached from his arms and the heat-vision deflects back towards Parasite, and quickly hits him.
It was then that Steeljaw charged at the villain and began punching him in the face multiple times, and as he did so, "I don't give a shit if you her powers or not." he yelled. "I'm still gonna knock your ass out!"
"Bring it asshole!" replied Parasite, as charges flew towards Steeljaw. But as he punches, Steeljaw blocks Parasite punches with his gauntlets again. Then, Steeljaw slashes Parasite towards his chest, then swats him away.
Quickly recovers, Parasite sees a lamp post, grabs it and pulls it over, then uses it as a bat. But once Parasite is about to hit Steeljaw with the lamp post, Steeljaw bites the lamp post with his steel teeth, then hurls around and sends Parasite flying.
For a while it seemed as though Parasite may have been knocked out, Supergirl is slightly in the middle of her recovery but still tied up with chains. "Ugh, Ben…" says Supergirl weakly after her powers were absorbed. "Parasite can… absorb… powers…."
Then it hits Steeljaw and comes up with an idea. "Then I'll have to resort to using weapons instead!" Steeljaw quickly slapped the Ultimatrix dial from his chest, then transformed into Feedback. The alien has a black body with one green eye in the middle of his head, two antennae, a tail with round plugs on their tips, four-fingered hands, and feet with only two front toes. His chest is recolored green and his fingers are now square. He also has gold battery bolts on his shoulders, arms, and hips.
"You think I'm impressed that you can transform into different kinds of monsters?!" Parasite wanted to think that he's bewildered.
"Why don't you get over here and find out?" Feedback says it confidently.
Then Parasite flew towards Feedbacks direction and Feedback charges towards Parasite. As both of them charge, Feedback leaps forward and absorbs Parasite power by plugging Parasite's body with his plug-like conductors on his antennae and fingers.
"AAAARRGHHH! WHAT DID YOU JUST DO TO ME?!" yelled Parasite, as his powers are being absorbed.
"Let's see how you like it when someone steals your powers." smirked Feedback.
After Feedback absorbs all his powers he fires all the energy to the sky. The energy being absorbed must be released somewhere, so Feedback fired it towards the sky. Finally Feedback defeats Parasite and leaves him unconscious while lying on the ground. Now, Feedback ran towards Supergirl, then transformed back to Ben/Omni Knight. He unties Supergirl with his lock-picking skills, while she's slowly recovering her powers.
"Thanks." Supergirl thanks him but feeling unconfident and not making eye contact towards Ben.
"You okay?" asked Ben
Supergirl looked up at him. "No, not really, but I don't want to talk about it."
"I think it's best for you to talk about, it'll make things better. Trust me." insisted Omni Knight.
Supergirl sighed. "I messed up, Ben. I got caught after I was on a look-out. But it feels so embarrassing, for someone to save my sorry butt."
Then Ben takes off his helmet revealing his, hopefully to reconcile Supergirl. "It's not your fault Kara, it was out of nowhere that Parasite ambushed you. Besides, blaming isn't productive. I almost always had to have someone else save my sorry butt because of how I acted. I'm pretty sure that's why the Justice League was founded, so that heroes could watch out for each other."
Kara felt her spirits rise. If Ben could rise above his flaws, so could she.
"Thanks Ben." replied Supergirl as her spirit and her powers rose again, she kissed Ben on the cheek, showing a sign that she really likes Ben. Then Ben was blushing with red cheeks.
WAREHOUSE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Back at the fight, Deadshot realized that his team of villains will not be going to beat the Justice League, so he created diversion. "Screw this!" muttered Deadshot, as he fired his gauntlet guns towards the boxes labeled "Live Ammo", which are flammable and explosive.
Then Wonder Woman notices. "EVERYONE OUT!" she orders her as the warehouse explodes with flammable objects. Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific, and Atom ran outside. But the villains ran in the other direction.
After the explosion from the warehouse, Wonder Woman and her team felt disappointed as they let the bad guys get away, but no one is to be blamed. But Wonder Woman received a call from Ben from the ear comm
"Diana." said Ben from the ear comm. "I've caught one of the bad guys, called himself Parasite. Maybe we could make him talk."
"On my way." said Wonder Woman, as she replied into her comm-link.
CHICAGO CITY, ILLINOIS
Omni Knight, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific, and Atom, are surrounding Parasite while he was binded with a lamp post, thanks to Supergirl. Then Wonder Woman binds him again with the Lasso of Truth. "The lasso compels you! Tell me where your teammates are going and why?"
Parasite was trying to resist but unable to lie due to the lasso's magic "There heading to Sci-Fi convention in Little Rock, Arkansas. We were planning to steal a new invention being shown there, a Proton Ion Cannon. It's going to be tested and it will be shown on display there."
"Then we don't have much time then." Mr. Terrific.
"Wait!" halted Omni Knight, then turned his attention towards Parasite again. "Why do you guys want to steal the Proton Ion Cannon?"
"Sorry, I wasn't given much detail from my client" replied Parasite, who couldn't lie and was still binded by a lamp post and Diana's lasso.
"Who's your client?" Wonder Woman asks with a glare.
"Count Vertigo." replied Parasite.
That name made Wonder Woman, Atom and Mr. Terrific gasp in horror. "Vertigo!" Wonder Woman said, in a grim manner.
Count Vertigo was a member of the royal family of Vlatava. After his attempt of murder of his niece but failed thanks to Green Arrow last year, Count Vertigo is now a wanted criminal who uses a headgear that unleashes a wave of psychic force that distorts his target's balance or makes them feel dizzy to the point that they fall unconscious.
SCIENCE CONVENTION, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
After arriving at the science convention, the team parked the Javelin near the trees while being cloaked invisible. Knowing that wearing their superhero outfits will be a bad idea because it will draw too much attention to the visitors, especially the villains, they have no choice but to blend in as cosplayers. Mr. Terrific had disguised himself as a security guard, as did Atom while Ben was dressed in a navy, crimson and black duster coat with a silverish white wig and a claw-like arm on his right hand, Supergirl was dressed in what looked like a red lifeguard uniform and Wonder Woman had been dressed up in a red trench coat, a matching fedora, gloves and shoes while she also had a little bit of her hair covering one of her eyes. Ben, Kara and Diana were cosplaying as Nero from Devil May Cry 4, C.J. Parker from Baywatch, and Carmen Sandiego.
"I can't believe I have to be the one dressed as C.J." said Kara, as she looked at Diana. "Why couldn't you do it? You've got her build." she whispered.
"I know, but I'd rather not be perved on by those horny fanboys." Diana replied. "Besides, I don't have blonde hair like you do."
The blonde still does not feel comfortable, "Great, now I'll be the one who'll be perved on by those horny fanboys." Kara grumbled, while blushing.
"It's just for a while." replied Ben, trying to comfort Kara. "Besides, they'll take it to me if those assholes try to do anything stupid."
"I know you're sweet, but you know I can take care of myself" Kara admits she can defend herself because of her Kryptonian physiology.
"Did you find them yet?" asks Diana, hoping that Kara is able to find them with her super vision and her super hearing.
"I could, but it's too crowded and it'll take a while." replied Kara
Meanwhile, a couple of T-spheres are floating above the ceiling scanning every single individual on the science con, while Mr. Terrific, dressing up as a security guard.
Then a presentation on a stage is about to start, where the MC is presenting to the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen, here's our next presenter of today's event, Lena Luthor."
Lena came to the stage where he presented the protoid ion laser, and everyone was cheering for her new invention. Ben, Kara, and Diana also did take a look along with the audience.
"Before we get started, I wanna ask you something." Lena started her presentation. "Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both? They say the best weapon is the weapon that we don't have to fire. I respectfully disagree. That's how the Luthor's did it, that's how America does it, and it's working out pretty well so far."
Lena Luthor is currently the CEO of L-Corp, the name was originally "LexCorp", but Lena decided it's better to change the name to get rid of her brother's name. Despite her hate towards her brother, she had a similar desire of disliking superheroes, thinking that they are more superior than average people.
In the middle of the presentation, the T-spheres detected some sort of error as it was being frozen from above the ceiling. The ceiling is getting colder as the visitor is feeling the cold.
"Guys, you can feel that cold right?" asked Mr. Terrific, while pressing his ear comm. "My T-sphere's get suddenly malfunctioned because it was frozen." Then, a couple of the frozen T-spheres fell to the ground.
In the middle of the audience, Kara immediately uses her x-ray vision to find Killer Frost. She looks all over the crowd and spotted Killer Frost who's above the rooftops.
"Up there!" after Kara spotted Killer Frost.
"Go!" ordered Diana. "Ben and I will guard Lena and her invention."
Kara nodded and quickly rushed, but not using her super speed because she didn't want to get spotted by the civilians. As she finds a hiding spot, Kara can now uses her super speed to change from her Baywatch costume into her Supergirl outfit. Diana and Ben are also looking for a hiding spot, as they have the same reason not to get spotted by the civilians too. After finding their hiding spot, Diana spun around and transformed into her Wonder Woman outfit, while Ben was cycling his Ultimatrix and transformed into XLR8.
"After you, milady" XLR8 sarcastically said.
"Let's go." Wonder Woman ignored Ben's sarcasm manner. And yet, at the same time, she mused this.
Back at the convention, a smoke grenade was thrown towards the Proton Ion Laser Cannon, Deadshot and Copperhead were about to steal, then Lena's guard, Mercy Graves, jumped-kicked towards both thieves.
Mercy Graves was previously working for Lex Luthor, when he was still in charge of LexCorp. Now, after the power was shifted to Lena, Mercy is now currently working for Lena.
As Deadshot is about to fire his wrist-guns towards Mercy, Wonder Woman quickly steps in and blocks the bullets with her quick reflexes and her gauntlet to block the bullets. As Copperhead is about to pounce Wonder Woman, XLR8 rushes forward and jumps-kicked towards Copperhead.
"Good work" Wonder Woman thanking XLR8 to watch her back.
Meanwhile on the rooftops, Supergirl spotted Killer Frost, as she was using her cryokinesis powers to freeze the rooftops. She flew at her and used her heat vision to melt the ice to create some steam and wholloped Frost in the jaw. "Ugh. Who did that?" Frost asked, feeling confused.
Supergirl walked slowly towards her. "I did, Frost." she said.
"Supergirl?! How long have you been here?!" Frost demanded.
"Long enough." the last daughter of Krypton joked, as she cracked her knuckles. The two of them began punching and kicking each other as their fight was beginning to interlock. Supergirl then clocked Killer Frost in the jaw, knocking some of her teeth out, and giving the cryokinetic supervillainess a bloody lip.
"Why, you little Kryptonian hussy!" Frost snarled, looking pissed off. Then she looked towards the other side. "NOW!"
Killer Frost signals Giganta, as she grows into a giant and swatted Supergirl away.
*SWAT*
Back inside the building, Mr. Terrific and Atom is evacuating the civilians and changed into their outfits in order find out
Back at the fight between XLR8 and Wonder Woman against Deadshot and Copperhead, the villains realized they couldn't beat the heroes head on. But Deadshot came up with a backup plan. "Time for plan B." Deadshot speaks while pressing his ear-comm.
After swatting Supergirl away, Giganta heard from ear-comm about the plan B Deadshot mentioned, as she smashed the ceiling outside the building. "Climb on, fellas!" she said. And so, the villains all climbed up to Giganta's shoulder, except for Copperhead, who was on top of Giganta's head of red hair.
Back at the building, the ceiling is about to fall, so Wonder Woman quickly flew up and lifted the ceiling.
"Nnrrgh." as Wonder Woman is carrying the ceiling, "A little help here."
"On it" replied XLR8, as he slapped the Ultimatrix dial and transformed into NRG, then took off his armor and revealed its true form as a radioactive alien, with heat all over its body.
NRG flew above near Wonder Woman's direction then fired his radioactive beams to seal up the cracks in it and give Wonder Woman the relief she needed after holding up the ceiling for a while.
"Good work." Wonder Woman gave NRG a compliment.
Both NRG and Wonder Woman came down, seeing an unhappy Lena for letting the bad guys get away with her Proton Ion Laser Cannon. "Damn, how could you let them get away with that cannon!?" she yelled at them.
"They got the drop on us." said Mr. Terrific, as he came inside with Wonder Woman and NRG. "Deadshot had it all planned before we got here."
"Thanks to you geniuses, the cannon is powerful enough to eliminate thousands of lives!" Lena shot back.
"Then why did you bother building that weapon in the first place?!" Wonder Woman shot back at her, giving her an angry glare.
"I didn't think anyone would actually use it!" said Lena, defending herself. "This is your fault!"
Just then, Supergirl came back down and knocked her out. "Stow it up your actuator, Lena!" she yelled. "We have to get that cannon back and those Ionic Fuel Cells too!"
"She's right." NRG agrees with Supergirl. "We gotta go!"
And so, they all rushed back to the Javelin to chase after them.
INSIDE THE JAVELIN
"Now how are we gonna find those bad guys?" asked Supergirl, while sitting on a Javelin seat and buckled up with seat belts.
"Lucky for you guys, I've just put a tracker on Deadshot's left shoulder." explained Atom.
"So what do they want with that cannon? Destroying the city? Holding a ransom?" Supergirl was guessing.
"Not sure." said Mr. Terrific while thinking about what the bad guys were planning once they gave the cannon to Count Vertigo. "It can't be that easy."
"It never is, Michael," said Supergirl.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." said Ben. He then had a look of concern on her unhappy looks. "Kara, you don't look so good."
"More like Giganta smacked me into the brick." Supergirl said. "I'm just...Aghh!" She was frustrated. "I can't believe she sucker punched me," she said, as Ben approached her.
"Don't worry Supergirl." said Ben, reassuring her. "You'll get her back."
Supergirl smiled at him. Wonder Woman also mused at this, 'I think those two make a cute couple.' she thought, while continuing to pilot the Javelin when she looked at Ben. "Ben, you're sweet. But you know I can handle myself."
"Oh, right, now I just feel stupid." he rubbed the back of his neck while feeling embarrassed.
While Wonder Woman is piloting the Javelin, Mr. Terrific is looking towards the holographic computer provided by one of his T-sphere, locating Atom's tracker.
"Got' em!" Terrific pinpoints Deadshot's location. "They're heading to Keystone."
KEYSTONE CITY
The villains are at a hideout; they were successful in gathering the first two items. And it is here that we see a man with slick blonde hair and dressed in emerald flowing garments and holding a scepter. This was Count Vertigo, who was away from Vlativav, now run by Queen Perdita.
"Exemplary work, everyone." he said to them all. "Such a shame those so-called heroes arrived." he then turned their attention to the board. "Anyhoo, the third item we need to complete our super weapon…" he then pointed to the board.
Deadshot said, "The Ruby, right?"
"Yes, Lawton." Vertigo replied. "But it is a BIG Ruby that we need. About 50,000 karats!"
This made the lot of them all gasp in shock. "Uh, your excellency, where are we gonna get a rock that big?" asked Copperhead.
"Why the Keystone museum, of course." said Vertigo, denoting this fact. "The ruby is on loan from the Maharaja of Nimpa. And, it will be on display Wednesday night, at the Mayor's fundraiser. We are going to stop by and do a little fundraising of our own!"
"And if the heroes show up?" asked Killer Frost.
"Luckily I hired someone special for keeping those heroes busy." replied Vertigo, while looking towards the shadow. Then the mysterious person walks out of the shadow and the figure was dressed in a purple suit with an orange vest with polka dots and was made up to look like a bad circus clown, this was Batman's mortal enemy, the Joker.
All of them gasped in shock, "Joker!" said Deadshot.
"Are you insane!? He's a maniac!" replied Killer Frost.
"And what's wrong about being a maniac?!"the Joker replied back to her. "It's done wonders for me!" he added.
Deadshot didn't reply back, but just a glare while his eyes narrowed down, thinking about Joker's reputation. "What are you hoping to gain from all this?" asked Deadshot.
"You know, it's all for laughs." said Joker.
"Enough!" interrupted Vertigo. "Did you bring what you need to do?"
"Indeed I did." said Joker, wheeling in the Joker Toxin he had. "HEHEHEHEHE." As Joker laughs maniacally.
Meanwhile, the Javelin landed on the rooftops. Wonder Woman kept the Javelin invisible in order to make sure that the vehicle does not get spotted by anyone; especially the villains. "This should work," said Atom.
Wonder Woman looked around the place, hoping that they would find them. "Okay, we'll wait here till they show up." she said. "Here's the plan, Mr. Terrific, you send in your camouflage T-spheres to get inside and record the event, Ben, you go turn into that Galvan alien and come with me. Ray, you and Kara stand by the entrance."
"Roger that." said Mr. Terrific.
Ben activates the Ultimatrix, turns the dial and transforms into Grey Matter, his Galvan alien form, Wonder Woman picks him up and puts him in the top of her outfit. "Are you okay in there?" she asked him.
"Yeah." said Grey Matter while giving her a small smile.
"Don't be nervous, Ben."
"I don't get nervous." Ben, as Grey Matter, was in denial, rather not showing any sign of weakness towards his new teammates.
Diana knew that Ben was lying, but she understands that most men are not in a habit of showing any sign of weakness.
Inside the fundraiser building, the Mayor was hosting the event. Then a marching band arrived, the audience applauded the arrival of the marching. As the marching band were playing their instrument, one of the marching band members, the Joker, was in a disguise as a marching band member, blowing his bagpipes and spreading out all the Joker gas towards the crowds.
Wonder Woman and Grey Matter notice the gas. As it spreads, the crowds are coughing then they laugh. As they laugh in a creepy way, the crowds fall down while smiling.
"Now that's just a whole new level of creepy." commented Grey Matter.
"This is no time for games Ben." scolded Wonder Woman. "This was caused by a madman, who called himself The Joker. He enjoys hurting people just for the sake of his laughs, and he's one of Batman's most dangerous foes."
Grey Matter complains, "Man, I hate clowns."
"His backstory is unknown. All we know is that he fell into a vat of chemicals which warped his mind beyond all help." said Atom, then turns his attention to Supergirl, "Supergirl, can you suck up all the gas?"
"On it!" Supergirl replied as she zoomed towards the fundraiser, then she saw a couple of the audience, including the mayor, was laughing. She quickly sucks the whole gas, flies quickly, crashes to the ceiling, then flies up to space while holding her laughter.
'Whatever you do, don't laugh!', thought Supergirl. She realizes the gas through space then flies back down to the fundraiser.
"Ugh, party poopers." complained the Joker.
Then Joker was bound by Wonder Woman's lasso. But Joker quickly throws his explosive doll. "Catch!"
As Wonder Woman saw a doll lying on the ground, "Mama." as the doll spoke from its radio box inside, then exploded.
*KABOOM*
The explosion knocks Wonder Woman off.
As Joker is about to make his getaway, Grey Matter, now slapped his Ultimatrix dial and transforms into Ultimate Grey Matter. It has a gray-skinned, frog/demon-like, bipedal alien that is significantly taller than Grey Matter, He has two front toes and one back toe on each foot, which are also pointy. He has large glowing green eyes with minus-shaped pupils, seemingly lacking the black outlines other Galvan have. On his head are two horn-like growths. He wears a green vest over a black sleeveless jumpsuit with two black stripes going around the middle of his chest.
Ultimate Grey Matter uses his crystallokinetic powers to encasing the Joker in order for him not to get away.
"Ugh, this stuff coming out of you?" Joker asked.
"Well, duh…" replied Ultimate Grey Matter.
The team gathered together and went outside through the front door, where they encountered Count Vertigo.
"Vertigo!" exclaimed Wonder Woman.
"It's Count Vertigo to you, peasants!" corrected Vertigo, as he quickly uses his headgear that unleashes a wave of psychic force that distorts the heroes' balance or makes them feel dizzy.
"I… hate it… when... he... do... that!" complained Mr. Terrific while grunted. However, Terrific was still able to access his T-spheres.
As Vertigo is about to fire his new cannon to fire it at the Keystone city, the T-spheres are able to knock off Vertigo, which allows the heroes to recover.
But the T-spheres were destroyed by Deadshot after fired his "gauntlet-guns" towards the T-spheres.
With his quick thinking, Ultimate Grey Matter fires his crystallizing flames towards the cannon, which is caused to be encased by green crystals thanks to Ultimate Grey Matter.
Count Vertigo growled, "You'll pay for that you stupid frog!" As he attacked Ultimate Grey Matter with his headgear that unleashes a wave of psychic force. Ultimate Grey Matter grunted while kneeling on the ground.
"NO!" as Supergirl was angered by what he did to Ben, currently as Ultimate Grey Matter, Giganta quickly grabs Supergirl and tossed her away.
Wonder Woman is deflecting Deadshot's bullets with her gauntlets, Mr. Terrific is fighting against Killer Frost, and Atom is fending off Copperhead. Which leaves Ultimate Grey Matter still struggling against Vertigo's powers.
Surprisingly, Ultimate Grey Matter slowly stood up against Vertigo's psychic force.
"What?! NO!" Vertigo slowly falls back, but Ultimate Grey Matter rises up thanks to his strong mind, which is able to withstand Vertigo's psychic force.
As Ultimate Grey Matter is getting closer, he quickly grabs Vertigo and punches him to knock him out unconsciously.
The other heroes quickly won too; Wonder Woman knock out Deadshot unconsciously after deflecting all his bullets, Supergirl punches Giganta by her brute force, Mr. Terrific, able to create a flashlight from his T-spheres then fired a stun laser to knock off Killer Frost, and Atom able to punch Copperhead by brute force too, even at his small size.
"Now, that's a wrap." said Ultimate Grey Matter, celebrating his first mission victory with his new teammates.
An hour later, Batman arrived at Keystone City in the Batwing and as he put it on Autopilot, he dived out of the cockpit, landed on the ground and brought the antidote to cure the audience who were gassed by the Joker.
After Batman cures the audience, including the mayor, he approaches the team. "The police will escort the Joker back to Arkham." explained Batman to the team. "The rest will be delivered to Belle Reve".
The police are carrying the Joker, who's still in an encasement of a crystal by Ultimate Grey Matter, and the rest are handcuffed and put in inhibitor collars, specialized to contain superpowered villains.
"Well, there are a few bumps on the way. But we recovered." explained Omni Knight, who's already transformed back.
"I expect file reports about the mission once we head back to the Watchtower." told Batman
Like everyone else, every mission needs to be reported and filed by every Justice League member.
As Batman, Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific, and Atom are leaving, Omni Knight approaches Supergirl.
"Not bad on our first mission huh?" asked Omni Knight.
Supergirl smiled back, "Yeah."
Then they stayed silent for a minute as they felt embarrassed and didn't know what to talk about. But Omni Knight felt nervous about what's about to say to Supergirl.
"Say, Kara…"
"Yeah?"
"Are you…" Ben swallowed nervously.
"Are you free this weekend?"
Kara's eyes went wide. Is he going to ask me out?, thought Supergirl.
"Uh, no," she said, cursing herself for her sudden nervousness, "I'm free this Saturday, why?"
"Well, I was kinda hoping you'd like to see a movie that just came out, plus there's this restaurant that opened up near my house in New York."
Kara rejected a couple of boys back at Smallville High a few years ago, because Earth boys are so ridiculous, but Ben was special, as he totally understands her, according to Kara.
Supergirk couldn't hold back her smile while blushing, "Yeah, sounds fun!"
"Great! I'll see you on Saturday!" He replied with joy. Luckily for Omni Knight, he wore his helmet to hide his excitement along with his red face.
THE END OF CHAPTER 4
Note 1: So it's basically similar with the JLU series, where the Justice League expanding more members, a new and improve Watchtower, staff workers, teleporters, more javelins, and they still keep the Hall of Justice. The Hall of Justice will also be the Justice League's secondary base, for the to "stay close to the ground" and to connect towards the people (especially the government). The Hall of Justice is located in Washington DC.
Note 2: Like every superhero, everyone needs their codenames, including Ben Tennyson. But me and my co-writer thinking that should hide Ben's name. So instead of "Ben 10", we've personally changed his codename into "Omni Knight." It looks like black armored jumpsuit, along with a black helmet, jet boot attachments, a utility belt, and still have the Ultimatrix attached on his left wrist. The design was inspired from "the Mandalorian" and "Star-Lord".
Note 3: Steeljaw was based from Bashmouth from the Ben 10 Reboot cartoon, but me and my co-writer agreed to name him after the Transformers character of the same name, Steeljaw. He has dark blue-gray and cream-colored fur, sharp claws on each hand and foot, as well as a small tail. His eyes are green, sharp teeth, and he wears a white and black armored vest, black pants and gauntlets, and an iron shoulder pad on his right shoulder.
Note 4: Ultimate Grey Matter was based from Dark Matter from the Ben 10 Reboot Cartoon. It has a grey-skinned, frog/demon-like, bipedal alien that is significantly taller than Grey Matter, He has two front toes and one back toe on each foot, which are also pointy. He has large glowing green eyes with minus-shaped pupils, seemingly lacking the black outlines other Galvan have. On his head are two horn-like growths. He wears a green vest over a black sleeveless jumpsuit with two black stripes going around the middle of his chest. Me and my co-writer personally changed Ultimate Grey Matter's design compared to the ones looks like MODOK.